"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.'' - George Burns"I didn't come half-way across the galaxy to wait for permission to do my job." - Some scientist weenie, Stargate SG-1"Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality." -Henri-Frédéric Amiel"It can be important to have waited at least a moment to see what was already there." - Bjørn Hansen

Visual/spatial Learning : http://www.studygs.net/visual.htm Learning, for visual-spatial learners, takes place all at once, with large chunks of information grasped in intuitive leaps (rather than in the gradual accretion of isolated facts, small steps or habit patterns gained through practice).

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." - Oscar Wilde"The amount of sleep required by the average person is just a few more minutes." - ?"Wayists don't try to convert people. We simply show them that they're already Wayists.'' - Rev Bem (Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda'', Episode 2 (Premier, pt. 2), An Affirming Flame'' )

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." - G. K. Chesterton""What on earth did I ever do to deserve so much?", "Dude, you visualized." - The Universe"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.' - Chaucer"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.' - W. Somerset Maugham via http://rna.berkeley.edu/~drsteve/quotes.html"Instead of wondering what it is you might do that you'd be wildly successful at, wonder how you seem to miss that you already are." - TU

"The picture-examining eye is the best finder we have of the wholly unanticipated." - John Tuckey, statistician"...he does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies: you have not seen such a thing as 'tis." - Maria (Twelfth Night – Act 3, Scene 2) [surrounding text][citation]"A good map tells us the truth about its content; but a bad map tells us the truth about its maker." - R.B. Wild (after G. K. Chesterton)"It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realise that you are in a hurry." - Ralph's Observation (via slashdot)“Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” - A.J. Liebling

"One infographic = 300 words" - RW (based on Academic guideline; 8 page article = 6000 words needs 20 graphical images)"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite" . -G. K. Chesterton"Welcome, destruction, death, and massacre! I see, as in a map, the end of all." - Queen Elizabeth (Richard III – Act 2, Scene 4 [surrounding text] [citation]"Does a rich person have to spend all their money to feel rich? No. They don't even have to spend a cent, do they? Oh, you so have it made." - The Universe

"Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately attributed to ignorance." - Napoleon"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr"Lead, follow, or get out of the way." - Thomas Paine (Via http://russp.org/quotes.html )"Luck can't last a lifetime, unless you die young." - Russell Banks"The man with a new idea is a crank, until the idea succeeds." - Mark Twain"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." - Jim Horning

We Feel Fine: : http://wefeelfine.org/gallery/index.php blog entries are represented by dots and squares that swarm. When you click a dot, the other dots move away from it (to represent looking at someone apart from the group) and the "feeling" snippet from that blog appears. (Another Jonathon Harris production)

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." - William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice""If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - Anon."We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge"If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter." - Freeman Dyson"Wishing without work is like fishing without bait." - Frank Tyger"If Michelangelo had been concerned about risk, he would have painted the Sistine floor." - Neil Simon"Scientists discover the world that exists, engineers create the world that never was." - Theodore von Karman"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from wise men." - Marcus Porcius Cato

"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load.I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road.Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone,And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone." - Gale Brook Burket"Planting a seed doesn't make it grow." - Sass Jordan"A mind cannot really grow very much by only accumulating more and more new knowledge. It must also develop new and better ways to use what it already knows." - Marvin Minsky"An old soul is always prepared to admit they might be wrong, especially when they're not." - TU

"My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset." - Alfred Lord Tennyson"Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion-what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate." - Henry David Thoreau" Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles one overcomes in its attainment." - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915 ; born a black American slave, he becaume a famous educator, author and politician who transformed the system of higher education in the U.S. South)."Precision always exceeds accuracy." - unknown law"All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword." - Julie Arabi

"The road is always better than the inn." - Cervantes"I am an Idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way." - Carl Sandberg"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road." - Voltaire"I don't have an overactive imagination... I have an underactive reality... " - EG"The Soviet Union was bound to fall, it was on the edge of the map." - Kelly Bundy, on Married With Children

Jeff Howe introduced the term crowdsourcing (in his June 2006 Wired Magazine article, “The Rise of Crowdsourcing”) to describe a new form of corporate outsourcing to largely amateur pools of volunteer labor that “create content, solve problems, and even do corporate R & D.” ; ttp://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/grover.htm

"Far better to have a stout heart always and suffer ones share of evils than to forever fear what may happen." - Herodotes."Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." -Thomas Jefferson (inscribed at the base the Jefferson Memorial)"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Confucius

"Nothing you might ever give, isn't one day returned, and far more." - TU"A man's homeland is wherever he prospers." - Aristophanes"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore,there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar;I love not Man the less, but Nature more." - George Gordon Byron"People will look up to you if you climb up on something high." - Jason"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past." - George Orwell

"...The bright path seems dim; Going forward seems like retreat; The easy way seems hard..." - #41 http://naturyl.humanists.net/ttc.html"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions." - Earl Gray Stevens"The pen is mightier than the ........ pigs." -first grader"At the end of the day, you want to respect what you do. In a certain sense, our work is us. We get into it, and it gets into us." - John W. Rowe"Resist Much; Obey Little." - Walt Whitman"Most, including those who love you most, have absolutely no idea of how much they depend upon you to follow your dreams. But they do. You go..." - The Universe

"... two conventions we can let go off when building virtual worlds: That space has to be flat (Euclidian), and that the topology has to follow the geometry of space (it can be non-contiguous, like the web)..." : http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/06/metaverse_20.html

Version 2 sneak-peak : http://mapwow.com/v2/ with a few new features, (most noticeably the cool mini-map in the lower-right corner of the map).

"Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier." - Blore's Razor"I develop datascopes, not microscopes or telescopes: I create tools for people to see large-scale data sets." - Katy Borner ( http://future.iftf.org/visualization/index.html )"So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen." - M.C. Escher"Although war is cruel and brutal, it is also dangerous and stupid." - Yakko Warner"Asking "how" is pure, unadulterated, low energy, health zapping, fun squeezing, party-pooping doubt." - TU"You can't have everything, where would you put it?" - Steven Wright

Huge alien bug ... here or on Google Maps here you will notice this huge bug about 200+ feet long on German land. (Don't worry, it is not some alien from outer-space. It appears that a bug got stuck between the "glass plate and the film during the scanning process.")

Participants make 3D maps which become a visual journey through their creative processes : http://www.creatingandexploring.net/tools.html (in the Creativity Workshop, on twelve foot long scrolls to be laid out on the floor and populated with language, images, sounds and objects).

"Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream." - Lao Tzu (600 BC-531 BC), Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote "Tao Te Ching" ("The Book of the Way")."I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days." - M.C. Escher"Whenever an escalator to "success" ascends without you, it's always because there's another one on the way that will go even higher (with your name plastered all over it)." - The Universe"And before I knew it I was playing . . . It was effortless. It was easy to play with those things. It was like uncorking a bottle. Everything flowed out effortlessly" – including Nobel Prize-winning insights into quantum mechanics. - Richard Feynmann (following a difficult and unproductive period in his career)

06 October 2006

Clusty Cloud Creator : http://cloud.clusty.com/ used to instantly visualize a topic using the familiar tag cloud display ( you can create a cloud based on any topic or query - you don't need tags or months of content on a subject to create an interesting cloud).

Artist & writer Joe Grant ( whose credits include Dumbo and Pocahontas), has died at the age of 96 while working at his drawing board at Disney where he was still working four days a week . Read on

"There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books." - Charlie Chaplin"The really juicy new approaches are not the ones insiders reject as impossible, but those they ignore as undignified." - Paul Graham"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." -George Washington Carver"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether." - Alfred North Whitehead"For absolute success in life, there are 2 rules you must follow. Rule 1; Never tell people everything you know. , .." - Yarns

"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do." - Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943), Speculum Mentis"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe"It's Not What Happens to You, It's What You Do About It." - W Mitchell (book title)The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." - Arthur Koestler

Zoommap : http://cendtonio.free.fr/ is specially designed to display a map or a card.. download zoommap (477Ko) Read the developer's guide here. A printing function shows an image with the piece of the map and some information attached to the image.

"You can never do too much drawing." - Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), Venetian painter."Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one’s first productions." - André Maurois"The origin of art comes from OUR NEED TO DISPLAY." - Evolutionary Science"The Zen-man...who talks of going beyond the dualism of good and evil, of right and wrong, of life and death, of truth and falsehood, will most likely be a subject of suspicion." - D. T.Suzuki Rij"If you don't like having choices made for you, you should start making your own." - Neal Stephenson

"But to find where you are going, you must know where you are, and I didn't." - John Steinbeck, Travels with Charlie"My drawings reflect the evolution of my idea." - Christo, (1935-), Bulgarian-American sculptor"A life develops in spirals; it passes again and again by the same points but at different levels of integration and complexity." - Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Progressive-Regressive Method," Search for a Method, 1960 / 63"If you desire to see, learn how to act." - Heinz von Foerster, system's theorist"the ... maxims of common human understanding ... are these: (I) to think for oneself; (2) to think from the standpoint of everyone else; (3) always to think consistently." - Kant, Critique of Judgement"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schultz

"Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others." - Samuel Johnson"The photograph is a thin slice of space as well as time." - S. Sontag, On Photography, 1977"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them." - Alfred North Whitehead“Be yourselves." - Lee Konitz (alto sax player)"No one [Freud] announced, lives in the real world. We occupy a space of our own creation — a collage compounded of bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations." - Willard Galin, Feelings, 1979"I shut my eyes in order to see." - Paul Gauguin